Distinguished Lecture Series: Catherine Opie

On the evening of Monday, October 9, 2023, the School of Art welcomed Catherine Opie as the inaugural speaker in our Distinguished Lecture Series. Speaking from the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall at the Yale University Art Gallery, Opie delivered a powerful talk about her practice and recent projects.
The event began with a land acknowledgment by Dannika Kemp Avent, Director of Sustainable Equity and Inclusion, followed by a welcome from Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean Kymberly Pinder, Ph.D. Opie’s talk was preceeded by an introduction by Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, Gregory Crewdson.
Catherine Opie (b. 1961, Sandusky, OH; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) is an artist working with photography, film, collage, and ceramics. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad and is held in over 50 major collections throughout the world. Opie was a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow recipient and recently returned from the American Academy in Rome as the Robert Mapplethorpe Resident in Photography for 2021. Opie was also awarded The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Medal in 2016, The Julius Shulman Excellence in Photography Award in 2013 and a United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. In September of 2008, the Guggenheim Museum in New York opened a mid-career exhibition titled, Catherine Opie: American Photographer. She debuted her film, The Modernist, at Regen Projects, Los Angeles in 2018. Opie received a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 1988. She held the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Art at UCLA for a 2 year appointment, and was a professor of Photography there for 22 years. She has forthcoming exhibitions at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Peder Lund, Oslo and Lehmann Maupin, New York all opening in early 2024.
This program is generously supported by John and Kate Carrafiell.

[@radicalstanza3614]

No idea how this got recommended to me, but can you fix the sound so I can at least check it out for a few minutes? Unlistenable in its current state.

[@ayodeledavid3034]

Like seriously most of talks i find on RUclips like this has bad mixing I feel like they record these things but never check the sound quality, like they should do better